About the Authors
- Antoine Jacques
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Affiliations Unit of coordination and support to surveillance, ANSES, Scientific Affairs Department for Laboratories, Maisons-Alfort, France, Unit of Honey bee Pathology, ANSES, European Union and National Reference Laboratory for Honey bee Health, Sophia Antipolis, France
- Marion Laurent
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Affiliation Unit of Honey bee Pathology, ANSES, European Union and National Reference Laboratory for Honey bee Health, Sophia Antipolis, France
- EPILOBEE Consortium
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¶The complete membership of the EPILOBEE Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
- Magali Ribière-Chabert
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Affiliation Unit of Honey bee Pathology, ANSES, European Union and National Reference Laboratory for Honey bee Health, Sophia Antipolis, France
- Mathilde Saussac
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Affiliation Unit of coordination and support to surveillance, ANSES, Scientific Affairs Department for Laboratories, Maisons-Alfort, France
- Stéphanie Bougeard
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Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology and Welfare of Pork, ANSES, Ploufragan, France
- Giles E. Budge
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Affiliations Fera, Sand Hutton, York, United Kingdom, Institute for Agri-Food Research and Innovation, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
- Pascal Hendrikx
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Affiliation Unit of coordination and support to surveillance, ANSES, Scientific Affairs Department for Laboratories, Maisons-Alfort, France
- Marie-Pierre Chauzat
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* E-mail: marie-pierre.chauzat@anses.fr
Affiliations Unit of coordination and support to surveillance, ANSES, Scientific Affairs Department for Laboratories, Maisons-Alfort, France, Unit of Honey bee Pathology, ANSES, European Union and National Reference Laboratory for Honey bee Health, Sophia Antipolis, France
Competing Interests
This commercial affiliation Fera does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: MRC PH MPC. Data curation: ML MRC PH MPC. Formal analysis: AJ ML MS SB PH MPC. Funding acquisition: ML MRC SB PH MPC. Investigation: AJ ML MRC MS SB PH MPC. Methodology: AJ ML MS SB PH MPC. Project administration: ML MRC PH MPC. Resources: AJ ML MRC MS SB PH MPC. Software: AJ MS ML SB. Supervision: ML MRC PH MPC. Validation: AJ ML MS SB PH MPC. Visualization: AJ ML MS SB GEB MPC. Writing – original draft: AJ ML MS SB MPC. Writing – review & editing: AJ ML MS SB GEB MPC.